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230 Detroit--A Transatlantic Gasoliner The launching of the little gasoline power boat Detroit, designed and built for the exptess purpose of cross- ing the Atlantic ocean under her own power, took place at the yacht yard of the Matthews Boat Co. at Port Clinton, O., the afternoon of June 25. Appropriate ceremonies connected with the christening of the tiny ship preceded the immersion, including a speech by Capt. Thomas Fleming Day, of New York, who will act as navi- : gator on the ocean voyage. Detroit was designed and built at the Matthews plant for Wm... °F. Scripps, the well known newspaper man and manufacturer of Detroit, who for a long time has contemplated the construction of a power boat to con- quer the western ocean. The hull dimensions are 35 feet over. all, 9 ft. beam and 4% ft. draught. In model she is practically an enlarged § life boat with raised deck. cabins fore and aft and a waist or bridge deck amid- ships. The frames are 2 in. by. 2% ig. epaced. on foot centers. . The planking is 134 in. yellow pine below the waterline and 1% in. cedar above. The bilge stringers and clamps are of yellow pine and are extremely heavy. Deck planking is 1% in: pine, canvas covered, laid over 3 in. by 4 in. deck beams. The interior quarters are very mea- ger and consist of two built-in berths forward in which compartment will be stowed most of the stores and pro- THE MARINE REVIEW fed under pressure to an auxiliary tank in the engine room aft. There are also two 200-gallon tanks on ei- ther side of the bridge, which makes all told from 1,200 to 1,400 gallons fuel capacity. In the forward com- Detroir--A TRANS-ATLANTIC GASOLINER partment is a tank for 150 gallons of fresh water. Her power plant is a two-cylinder 16 H. P. Scripps four-cycle gasoline | DETROIT~ PETROIT. usa Detroit--A GASOLINE Power Boat INTENDED To Cross THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Burtt By MattuHews Boat Co., Port CLinton, O. visions. In, the engine compartment is a pipe berth. Underneath the mid- ship deck are five cylindrical seamless steel fuel tanks, each with a capacity of 200 gallons of gasoline which is marine engine turning a 24 by 26 in. three-blade propeller about 500 revo- lutions per minute. The engine will burn about 50 gallons of gasoline on 24 hours running and in that time will July, 1912 a distance of approximately cover 125 miles.. On this: basis it is esti- mated that Detroit will make the voyage from New York to Queens- town, taking the regular steamship track, in about twenty days. A novel arrangement for minimizing the ef- fect of breaking seas is the carrying of two oil tubes through the hull on either side of the stem at the water- line which connect with a sight feed oil tank on deck. The boat is rigged with a pole spar and will carry an auxiliary trysail and two jibs to be used when the winds are favorable. Complete dimensions and _ particu- lars * of the' boat are as- follows: Length over all, 35 ft.; length water line, 33 ft. 2 in.; breadth water line, 8° ft- 10 "in.; "breadth over all, °9. ft; draught, loaded, 4 ft. 7 in.; draught to fabbet, 3 ft. 3 in; depth, '5 ft..6 mm; least freeboard, loaded, 2 ft. 6 in; freeboard, bow, 5 ft. 9 in.; freeboard, eit, 4+ ft. fore cabin, 8) tt. 5-in,; 'stor- age space, 9 ft.; engine room, 7 ft. 10 in.; headroom, fore cabin, 6 ft.; head- room, engine room, 5 ft. 9 in.; ballast iron shoe, 1,200 Ib.: mast, 32 ft.; mast housing, 7 {t-s mast, deck to truck, 25° ft main-boom, 16 ft.;' sail' area, ead eq...it.; -fuelcapacity, 1,200. gal-; tanks, five, 8 it. x'24 in.; two tanks, 8 ft x 38 in.; water capacity, 150° gal: Total displacement, including fuel, stores and crew, about 25,000 lb. Freighter for Dominion Coal Co. Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. recently completed at Middlesbrough a_ bulk freighter for the Dominion Coal Co. to operate between Sydney and Mon- treal. Her principal dimensions 'are 388. ft. 3 in: Jong, 52 ft. beam. and 29 ft. 9 in. and her carrying capacity will be about 7,600 tons. She is of canti- lever construction with top side water ballast tanks. She is of the single deck type with poop, bridge and fore- castle and has been built to the high- est class of British corporation. She has eleven hatches and her hold is divided into four compartments. The vessel has twelve derrick posts and twenty derricks, four boats, hand and steam steering gear and is equipped with ten steam winches, steam wind- lass and the latest appliances for the rapid handling of cargo. The steam- er is equipped with triple-expansion engines, having cylinders 26.44 and 73 in. diameters by 48 in. stroke sup- plied with steam by three large sin- gle ended boilers, working at 180 lbs. pressure. The Louisiana state senate has passed a _ bill exempting American steamship companies from taxation in Louisiana,